Publications by authors named "Birgit Feindt"
Article Synopsis
- - The Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) requires hospitals to use a geriatric screening tool called GeriNOT during inpatient care, particularly for patients with hip fractures, to identify potential health risks.
- - A study evaluated the effectiveness of GeriNOT on 821 geriatric patients (average age 81), examining their needs for post-inpatient care and risk for readmission, with a focus on different injury types.
- - Results indicated that all groups had GeriNOT scores above the critical threshold, with the hip fracture patients having the highest average score, suggesting higher vulnerability that could benefit from targeted intervention.
Article Synopsis
- Many older orthopedic and rheumatic patients experience multiple symptoms after being discharged from the hospital, with an average of 6 symptoms reported by participants.
- A significant number of these symptoms were not communicated to healthcare professionals, family, or friends, indicating a gap in communication.
- Despite this, most patients wanted to see improvements, and nearly all found it easy to access support.
Background: Geriatric-specific characteristics influence patient-relevant outcomes of inpatient hospital care in patients aged 70 years and older: prolonged length of stay, complications, increase in utilization of required services as well as mortality rates.
Objective: The screening tool GeriNOT, identification of geriatric risk potential with 7 items, of which mobility and cognition are double-weighted, score 9 points, was tested for its predictive content and diagnostic quality.
Material And Methods: Diagnostic study from a retrospective, bicentric complete survey in all types of admission from 70 years with 2541 patient cases.
This article examines the risk of falls of orthopaedic surgery patients on admission to hospital. For this purpose, an internal clinical fall risk score was developed, which divides the patients into three risk categories. Subsequently, the validity of the score was recorded and possibilities for reducing the individual risk of falling were pointed out.
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